Boom goes the toilet Part 2
See the post from yesterday to read Part 1.
Now what I wrote sounded reasonable right?!?!
Except the water exploded out and started spraying everywhere. It was like a crazy faucet shooting up towards the ceiling and then showering down. I started running around like a fool because I couldn’t get the valve off. After a minute or two (a that many inches of water on my floor), I went and got a pair of plyers. While they didn’t turn the valve off, they did make the valve easier to turn.
I’m down on the floor with water pouring all over me trying to turn this water off. I finally got it off and saw several inches of water on the floor. I went to the towel closet and grabbed every towel I owned except one, which was white, and threw them on the floor to soak up the water. I took me a hour and a half to soak up the water, wring out the towels and start over.
Then I had to wipe down the pebbles from the wall. We have these pebbled ceilings that was destroyed by the water. The pebbles were all over the wall and the floor. Which of course meant that they got into my clothes and my towels. After all of that, I took a shower and laid down at 3am - ish.
When the maintenance guy looked at my toilet, he told me the piece had completely rusted away so it was only a matter of time before it went. Luckily it happened when I was home because it could have been a disaster if it had happened while I was at work.
All’s well that ends well I guess. I am buying all new towels though.
